We would like to thank the following for supporting our work in the year 2008-2010: Fulbright Center Academy of Finland Danisco Research Foundation Eemil Aaltonen Foundation Finnish Cultural Foundation Finnish Graduate School of Psychiatry Juho Vainio Foundation University of Kuopio & University of Eastern Finland Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation

OUR RESEARCHERS AT TELEVISION Jaska is talking about health effects of chocolate in Prisma Studio, TV1 Wednesday 17.12.2008, 18.30. Anna is presenting her results of health effects of herbs in Tutkiva juttu: Luonto lääkekaappina in Thursday 11.12.2008, 20.30.

DECEMBER 2008 Anu was accepted to Finnish Graduate School of Psychiatry. She is the first nutritionist ever to be part in this graduate school. Interdisciplinary is the word of the day. Congratulations!

Jyrki will be back from his 2.5 year visit to Harvard, Boston, USA. At the same time he will start his 3-year Academy Fellow post.

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Jaakko, Tarja, Anna and Sari will attend 3rd International Conference on Polyphenols and Health (ICPH2007) and the International Conference on Food Factors for Health Promotion (ICOFF2007), in Kyoto, Japan. During the conferences are also The 3rd of International Food Ingredients & Additives Exhibition and Health Food Exposition with 180 exhibitors, 200 booths and 10,000 attendees.

Assistant Professor Anna Christina Pinheiro Fernandes from University of Chile was visiting our Institute. She was practising analytical methods for lignans as part of her PhD studies and studying association of enterolactone with other CHD risk factors in the kIHD Study. We started good and hopefully long-lasting collaboration together and had also very nice social events together.

JUNE 1, 2007

Jaska defended his doctoral thesis The role of polyphenols in cardiovascular diseases (Ravinnon flavonoidien merkitys sydän- ja verisuonitaudeissa). Congratulations! Professor Antti Aro from National Health Institute, Helsinki was the opponent and Sari the custodian.

Tarja gave a presentation in NJF seminar on Beneficial health substances from berries and minor crops. Tarja's presentation Absorption and metabolism of berry polyphenols. Later this year you can meet Tarja in June at the International Conference on Lignans, Alkylresorcinols and Health.

Tarja's three years postdoctoral research project funded by the Academy of Finland started. Topic of the project is Role of dietary phenolic compounds and their metabolites in human: health promoters or xenobiotics?

NOVEMBER 2009

Jaska received considerable funding, also other than by selling his car to Tarja, for his post doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota, Mineapolis, USA. He studies there health effects of carbohydrates in the group of Professor David Jacobs till the end of year 2011.